SolidWorks World 2014 Day 3 General Session

The Final session of SolidWorks world kicked off with Mark Schneider revealing the winners of 2014 Model Mania Contest, where attendees are presented with a  finished model and complete to see who recreate and analyze the model from scratch the fastest.

The SolidWorks Certification team took stage to announce some big news. In 2014 , SolidWorks is introducing three additional certifications:

• Certified SolidWorks Specialist - Mechanical Conceptual
• Certified SolidWorks Associate - Mechanical Conceptual
• Certified Specialist - 3D Experience Mechanical Conceptual

As of today SolidWorks have awarded over  100,000 certifications to user around the world.

Bruce Howley took the stage to reveal the results of the SolidWorks World 2014 TOP TEN List. After the end of voting period, the final results were as follows:

1. Auto-hide Components
2. Draw a line segment starting from mid-point
3. Equal spacing option for linear patterns
4. Ability to re-name part or sub-assembly in the feature tree
5. Unlimited undo/redo
6. Pressing the ESC key should immediately stop the current calculation and return control to the user
7. Fillets and chamfers should be managed by the same feature
8. Ability to flip angle dimensions after they have been placed
9. Hole callout should include all instances on the same face
10. New Purge command

They ended with a look of products team coming up for SolidWorks 2015. And with that Bertrand took the stage to thank the platinum sponsors: HP, Dell, NVIDIA. He also let eveyone know that next year , we'll be getting together in sunny Phoenix, Ariozona.

VIDEO: SolidWorks World 2014 Day 2 General Session

The second general session of SolidWorks World 2014 was all about the user community and customers. This past year, we had 14 new chapters for the SolidWorks User Group Network and over 800 people attending the SWUGN Summit events (they’re like miniature versions of SolidWorks World).

The general session kicked off with a customer presentation featuring eatART, an organization that ”fosters art research with a focus on large-scale, technically sophisticated art by supporting both independent and internal art projects,” led by Suchit Jain, Vice President of SolidWorks User Advocacy. Jonathan Tippett, founder of eatART, talked about their vision which was instrumental to the design of the Mondo Spider (demoed on stage yesterday).

Then, SolidWorks Usergroup   Network Leader Richard Doyle presented the SWUGN awards. That was followed up by more presentations from two amazing customers: MarkForged and BoDyn Bobsled.

Then, CEO Bertrand Sicot introduced the BoDyn team: Geoff Bodine and Bob Cuneo, who are behind the design of the Night Train 2 bobsled that the US team is taking to the 2014 Olympics next month in Sochi, Russia. Bertrand had an opportunity to visit with the team last year in Park City, Utah, and even got to take a ride down the track. He showed some video documenting the experience, and the team discussed what goes into designing a bobsled used in the winter games.

WATCH the SolidWorks World 2014 General  Session Day 2 video.

VIDEO:SolidWorks World 2014 General Session Day 1

SolidWorks Worls kicked off yesterday morning with a nearly 6000 people gathered together to celebrate their love for engineering and design.

With over 2.3 million users and counting around the world, the SolidWorks community is the biggest in the 3D CAD industry. Bertrand discussed his belief in “inspired people create inspired designs,” and the idea that the community is what makes the company and the products so powerful.

Bertrand went to announce two new products SolidWorks Inspection and eDrwaings Meeting. He also talked about My.SolidWorks.com, the new community website launched last year.

The SolidWorks team has also been working on new products built on the Dassault Systemes 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. For those of you unfamiliar with the 3D experience platform, it is a cloud-based service that enables 6 services:

• Search
• Tagging
• Collaborative Sharing
• Messaging
• Cloud Storage
• Live dashboarding capabilities

It integrates seamlessly with SolidWorks, to make your design experience the best possible. And we are now offering the first SolidWorks application available on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform: SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual. The new SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual platform resides on four basic pillars: instinctive, conceptual, social and connected. All of this was made possible by the research and development team at Dassault Systemes and SolidWorks.

Check out the video on SolidWorks 2014 General Session Day 1.